Derry man blinded by rubber bullet as a boy accepts soldier’s apology

Charity chief Richard Moore (right), who was blinded at the age of 10 during the Troubles, has gone on to form a friendship with the British soldier who shot him, Charles Inness (Children In Crossfire/PA)

A man blinded by a soldier as a child has described how he accepted his apology.

Charity chief Richard Moore, from Derry, was blinded at the age of 10 in 1972 after being struck by a rubber bullet fired by Charles Inness, then a captain with the Royal Artillery.